GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| yen | a strong desire or propensity |
| inkling | a slight knowledge or vague notion |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| audacious | intrepidly daring : adventurous |
| gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |
| apex | the uppermost point : vertex |
| inter | to deposit (a dead body) in the earth or in a tomb |
| zany | very eccentric (see eccentric |
| innuendo | an oblique allusion : hint |
| scintillate | to emit sparks : spark |